Woven into the fabric of the community
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Panthers’ football win
causes ‘Our Town’ to
re-schedule—page 2
Panthers capture Sectional crown, move on
to Regionals—page 8
The SEGway News
Serving South East Grant County
Volume 1, Number 6
November 10-16, 2016
A Good News Ventures publication
Taylor to serve as a satellite campus
for ‘America’s Best Hope’ conference
Filtering
and curating
information in
a media storm
H
By Jim Garringer
Taylor University will
serve as a satellite campus
for the nationwide America’s Best Hope Leadership
Conference, sponsored by
Truth At Work, November
11, 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.,
at the Cornwall Auditorium in the LaRita Boren
Campus Center on the
Taylor campus.
Organizers say the goal
is for attendees to learn
from respected business
leaders on how they lead
others to catalyze, encourage, and equip a generation of godly business
leaders – men and women
who want to grow and lead
spiritually, professionally
and personally to impact
the marketplace for Christ.
The lineup of speakers
will challenge attendees to
pursue qualities of godly
leadership that include
Christ-centeredness
and
being people of character, commitment, courage,
competency, while also
being catalysts and having
compassion.
The goal is for
attendees to
learn from respected business
leaders on how
they lead others to catalyze,
encourage, and
equip a generation of godly business leaders –
men and women
who want to grow
and lead.
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Speakers include:
Kirk Perry—President,
Brand
Solutions
at
Google
Anne Graham Lotz—
President of AnGeL
Ministries
Phil Vischer—Founder
and CEO of Jellyfish
Labs, Creator of Veggie
Tales
Dee Ann Turner—Vice
GROCERY
AND
VARIETY
STORE
CALL: 765-998-1111
President,
Enterprise
Social Responsibility at
Chick-fil-a
• Jim Munroe—Christian
Illusionist
• Col. Lee Ellis—Founder
and President of Leadership Freedom and FreedomStar Media
• Ray
Hilbert—CoFounder of Truth At
Work
The public is invited and
attendance (a $60 value) is
free, but space is limited.
Register at: http://americasbesthope.org/locations.
This event is being sponsored by Taylor University’s Business Department
and Beta Alpha Epsilon
chapter. For more information, contact Emily Jensen
(emily_jensen1@taylor.
edu) or Joe Schuette (joe_
[email protected]).
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ow did you wake up on Wednesday morning?
With a smile on your face? Or a tear? Whatever
it was, the first place people turned for breakfast
commentary was to their favorite news channel,
whether it was traditional morning TV, Facebook newsfeeds
or the radio. We all wanted to hear what everyone else was
thinking about our new President-elect. We all wanted to
process this historical moment with others, whether it was
with those we agreed with,
or disagreed. Whether
As we experiit was with strangers or
friends, countrymen or for- ence the multieigners. What did everyone
media news and
else think? Was this good
journalism of our
news, or bad news?
The world has changed
future, as well
so fast in the last decades,
as all the ways
and the way we comwe might hear
municate has shifted in
lightspeed to the point that opinion through
sometimes we don’t know
social media, it
if we really communicate
becomes more
well any more. Are we
really connecting like we
of a challenge
used to? Are our families
to filter out the
and communities really
different voices
experiencing the togetherness that we once did, when that we'd like to
we spent time face-to-face,
hear, to curate
when we did things tothe information
gether, in real-time, in real
space? How we share our
we are interested
lives is so different, and we
in and especially
do grieve the old ways.
to block out the
As we experience the
multi-media news and
negative influjournalism of our future,
ences we want to
as well as all the ways we
might hear opinion through keep out of our
social media, it becomes
lives.
more of a challenge to filter
out the different voices that
we'd like to hear, to curate the information we are interested
in and especially to block out the negative influences we
want to keep out of our lives.
Which voice do we listen to? Who do we believe? Who
can we trust?
Our communities depend on certain voices to express our
life and identify.
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